published Nov 28, 2011

​Accused of hiring hit men to murder her husband while she shopped at Walmart and Burger King for a fake alibi, Sandra Jessee declined to take the witness stand in her first trial and saw herself an...
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published Nov 23, 2011

​Crime solving sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of time.Take the Jack Jessee murder case. A Rambo-knife wielding intruder killed Jessee in his Placentia living room in August 1998--when the b...
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published Nov 22, 2011

​The final piece in Orange County law enforcement's relentless determination to solve a 13-year-old Placentia murder fell into place this afternoon when sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Thomas...
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published Nov 20, 2011

​Six Fullerton cops savagely beat a defenseless homeless man to death in July, but that didn't piss off Orange County Register columnist David Whiting.In fact, officers literally tore off Kelly Thom...
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published Nov 15, 2011

​According to one political group's reasoning during a recent anti-gay campaign, "[Heterosexual] marriage protects children's physical and mental health, providing them with a deep measure of emotio...
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published Nov 14, 2011

​"I don't know what that [word] means."That was today's answer by admitted hit man Brett Schrauben when asked by veteran public defender Derek Bercher if he'd been "altruistic" in confessing his rol...
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published Nov 11, 2011

​This week, newspapers reported that Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was outraged because President Barack Obama's administration is allegedly jeopardizing national security by sharing se...
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published Nov 11, 2011

​After using a Persian Internet dating service, Nooraj Aghmiyouni Nakhei of Oregon flew to Orange County in 2003 to meet an Iranian woman who'd recently immigrated to the United States. The two met ...
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published Nov 10, 2011

​Six years ago--to the abject horror of Orange County's blue hair right wingers, historian/author Tim Naftali became the first legitimate director of Richard Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Li...
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published Nov 10, 2011

​Gov. Jerry Brown's trip to Orange County last month for a speech to Democrats nabbed $30,000 mostly from local organized labor unions, according to a report this week in the Sacramento Bee.Among th...
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published Nov 09, 2011

​Not far from Disneyland in March 2008, Anaheim landlord Jose Agustin Lara Maya wanted more than rent from a family renting a garage room on his property.Maya, then 71, wanted to have sex with the f...
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published Nov 08, 2011

​Orange County Sheriff's Department (OSCD) officials announced late today that the local court system has one less criminal defendant to process because a pre-trial inmate died yesterday.That man, 5...
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published Nov 08, 2011

​A California Court of Appeal has affirmed a lower court's decision to award George Jaramillo nearly $529,000 in backpay and lawyer fees because the former Orange County assistant sheriff's 2004 fir...
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published Nov 07, 2011

​Deja vu once again appeared today in an Orange County courtroom as prosecutors hoped to officially solve a wild, $50,000 1998 hit-man murder in Placentia.Three years ago, prosecutor Michael F. Murr...
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published Nov 04, 2011

​Dana Rohrabacher has been called many unpleasant names over the years and deserved most of the derision.The oddball Costa Mesa congressman prefers to be called "patriot," which is how he commonly r...
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published Nov 04, 2011

​Sometimes it is just better to stay home.Daisy Sanchez Garcia can tell you the wisdom in that sentiment.In Oct. 2008, a series of unfortunate minor events turned a fun night out in Anaheim into a r...
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published Nov 03, 2011

​Scan the faces of potential jurors waiting in an Orange County courtroom and you'll undoubtedly see people who can't hide that their brains are furiously crafting mini-speeches that will allow them...
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published Nov 02, 2011

​Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's unabashed career politician, has affectionately coddled many slimy characters over the years.There was Sheriff Mike Carona, now a convicted felon.There was Hu...
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published Nov 02, 2011

​Like most, if not all, Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) hoodlums, Jason Alexander Mahoney enjoys terrorizing people.Mahoney has "PDS" (PEN1 Death Squad) tattooed on his stomach, a swastik...
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published Nov 01, 2011

​In July 2007, Weston Scott Kruger desperately wanted a porn magazine while in Newport Beach and he didn't want to pay for it.When you're 6-foot-5 and 275 pounds like Kruger, you have a chance to ge...
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